Oct 15, 2015 - Sale 2393

Sale 2393 - Lot 354

Price Realized: $ 6,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
HAAS, ERNST (1921-1986)
Portfolio titled "The Creation" with 10 vibrant photographs of nature's elements. Dye-transfer prints, each approximately 12 3/4x19 3/8 inches (32.5x49.3 cm.), and the reverse, each with Haas' signature, in pencil, on mount recto; each with individual folders with the printed title and date. Atlas-sized clamshell box with a gilt-lettered brown leather title label; the colophon, with Haas' signature and the edition number 34 (of 300), in ink; contents loose as issued. 1962-81; printed 1981

Additional Details

"Arizona," 1962 "New England," 1973 "Surtsey Volcano, near Iceland," 1965 "Tobago," 1968 "Lake Huntington, Kenya," 1970 "Nairobi, Kenya," 1970 "Island of Kyushu, Japan," 1981 "Sicily," 1965 "Kenya," 1970 "Vermont," 1969.

From the Forbes Collection.

Exhibited in Favorite Photographs from the Forbes Collection, The Forbes Galleries, New York, October 30, 2009-August 28, 2010.